HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES v. SPV REALTY

No. 3D15-1132.

212 So.3d 419 (2016)

HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES PROJECT, etc., et al., Appellants, v. SPV REALTY, LC, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Opinion filed December 21, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Disability Independence Group and Matthew W. Dietz , for appellants.

Lydecker, Diaz, and Laselve E. Harrison , Stephen Hunter Johnson and Margaret H. Mevers , for appellee.

Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc., and Jeffrey M. Hearne ; Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County, and Tequisha Y. Myles , Sandra M. Powery and Amanda Kleinrock (West Palm Beach); Florida Legal Services, Inc., and Peter P. Sleasman (Newberry), for the Housing Umbrella Group of Florida Legal Services, Inc., as amicus curiae.

Cheyanne M. Costilla (Tallahassee), General Counsel, for the Florida Commission on Human Relations, as amicus curiae.

Before SUAREZ, C.J., and SHEPHERD and SALTER, JJ.


The issue in this case is whether the Florida Fair Housing Act, sections 760.20-760.37 of the Florida Statutes, requires a private claimant to engage in a statutory conciliation process directed by the Florida Commission on Human Relations as a condition precedent to the filing of a civil action under the statute. We hold that it does...

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